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AN

EXPLANATORY INDEX

OF

TECHNICAL AND OTHER TERMS.

ABORIGINES-primitive inhabitants of a country.

Accession-arriving at or coming to a throne.

Annals-history arranged in order of time.

Annuity-yearly rents.

Antiphoners-books of church music.

Apparatus-means made use of.

Aristocracy-the body of the nobles, or government by the nobles.
Assessment-a sum raised on property, a tax.

Augury-foretelling future events by the entrails of birds, &c.

Auricular-secret, private, in the ear.

Auspices-patronage, direction.

Barons-lords, the aristocracy.

Benefices-ecclesiastical possessions or livings.

Bill of attainder-a bill which finds guilty or attaints.

Boom-a bar laid across a harbour.

Broadsides-shot fired from the whole of one side of a ship.
Bull, Bulla-a seal or ordinance published by the pope.
Bulwark-security, fortification.

Cabals-intrigues, persons assembled to plot.

Cashiered-dismissed disgracefully.

Celtic, Celts-the first people who made an irruption into Europe
and settled there from Asia.

Chantries-places or chapels endowed to sing mass for souls.

Charters-privileges.

Chivalry-knighthood under the feudal government.

Coifs-a sort of caps.

Conference--a meeting of ecclesiastics.

Conformity-agreeing with in religion.

Congress a meeting of ambassadors to settle the concerns of

nations.

Consistorial-relating to an ecclesiastical court.

Contraband-prohibited, forbidden, illegal.

Covenanters-men who swore to certain covenants during the
civil wars.

Crusade-military expedition against the Mahometans

Cure of souls-the employment of a priest in a parish.

Deacon-one of the major orders of the clergy, the next dignity to

that of priest.

Democrat-one who upholds a mob government.

Desperadoes-violent, blood-thirsty men.

Diocese the circuit containing the bishop's jurisdiction.

Domiciliary-entering into private houses.

Emissaries-spies, messengers.
Encyclical-circular.

Entail-the rule of descent or accession settled so that it cannot be

altered by the next possessor.

Entrenchments-works fortified by a ditch or trench.

Episcopacy-government of bishops.

Escalade-climbing the walls.

Exchequer the court for the revenues of the crown.
Excise taxes laid on commodities.

Falconer-one who trains hawks

Fanatics-persons with unreasonable and wild notions of religion.

Farthingale-a hoop used to spread the petticoats.

Fealty-duty or faith due to a superior lord.

Feuds-quarrels.

Finances-the revenue or income of the state.

First-fruits-profits of a benefice for one year.

Flank-the side of a battalion of soldiers.

Flanked-exposed at the side to the fire of the enemy.

Galleys-low flat vessels driven by oars.
Galleons-large ships with four or five decks,

Gaul-the country now called France.

Generalissimo-the general having the chief command.
Great seal—a stamp used by the king in signing patents.
Guarda Costas-vessels to prevent smuggling.

Guilds-corporations, societies of trades, &c.

Habeas Corpus-an act which obliges the government to bring any
person to trial within a certain time.

Hangings of arras-cloth woven in regular figures.

Hierarchy-a regular subordination of dignities in the churcn.
Hostages-persons given in trust for the security of the performance
of certain conditions.

Hide of land-containing about 100 acres.

Illumination-adorned by painting figures, &c.

Independents-a sect that holds that every separate congregation
is a complete church.

Institution-put in possession of a benefice, &c.

Interregnum-the time in which a throne is vacant between the
death of one prince and the accession of another.

Investitures-the right of giving possession to a living or benefice.

Jesuits-a religious order in the Catholic Church.
Junto-a cabal, persons joined together.

Lampreys a kind of eels.

Lapse-to fall by degrees from one proprietor to another.
Laymen-those not in clerical orders, or in a monastery

Legate-the pope's ambassador.

Legion-a body of Roman soldiers, consisting of about 5,000 men.
Levies-men or money raised by government.

Lower House-House of Commons.

Manoeuvres-skilful and unexpected action.

Marauders-soldiers who, without orders, plunder.

Mercenaries-soldiers hired for pay from foreign parts.
Millenarians-a sect holding that our Saviour will reign upon earth
a thousand years.

Missals-books of the mass.

Missionaries-persons sent to propagate religion.

Monopoly-the power of selling commodities to the exclusion of
other persons.

Mortgages-pledges put into the hands of a creditor as security.

Noviciate the time spent before the vow.
Null and void-of no effect, useless.
Nuncio a pope's ambassador.

Oligarchy-government of a small number.

Opera-a theatre where pieces are represented by vocal and in-
strumental music.

Palatinate-places possessing royal grants or privileges.
Panoply-complete armour.

Papal constitution-orders and regulations from the see of Rome.
Penal statutes-laws of vindictive punishment.

Pensioner guards—a band of gentlemen to guard the sovereign.
Piece-of-eight-a Spanish coin.

Pillion-a soft saddle set behind a horseman for a female to ride

on.

Placarded-fixed up, posted up.

Preliminaries-articles agreed upon before peace.

Presbyterian-a sect who disown episcopacy.

Prime mart-principal market.

Privateers-vessels of war fitted out to take merchant vessels.

Process-a course of law.

Protest-a solemn declaration against.

Protomartyr-the first martyr.

Puns and quibbles-the same words used in different senses.
Puritans-a name given to some dissenters from the church of
England.

Quartered-soldiers lodged.

Quintal-a hundred-weight, one hundred and twelve pounds.

Quoits a game of throwing a weight to a distance at a certain mark.

Rack-an engine of torture.

Razed-to throw buildings to the ground.

Records-authentic memorials.

Refusing quarter-putting to death prisoners in battle.

Regicides-king-killers.

Regular clergy-clergy under rules and vows in communities.
Roman toga-a kind of gown.

Ruff-puckered linen, worn round the neck.

See a diocese of a bishop.

Sessions-an assembly of judges sitting.

Sheriff a county officer, to execute the law

Shrines-cases in which are deposited the relics of saints.
Skittles-a game with pieces of wood shaped like sugar-loaves

struck by a ball of wood.

Squadron--a number of ships under one command.

Standard purity-tried by the test established by law.

Subdeacon-next order below a deacon.

Subsidies-money granted to a government.

Sumptuary laws-regulating the expense and manner of dress.

Synod-an assembly of ecclesiastics.

Tassels-a bunch of silk, &c. for ornaments,

Tennis-a game at which a ball is struck by a racket or battledore.
Temporalities-secular possessions, as distinguished from spiritual.
Tenures-the conditions by which lands or houses are held.
Test-an oath taken against transubstantiation.

Tonnage and poundage-money paid as tax upon merchandise.
Tournaments-sham military encounters.

Train bands-militia soldiers.

Transports-vessels of carriage, principally to convey troops.

Van-the front.

Vassal-one who depends on a superior.

Vicars general, Archdeacons-persons who, in certain things, supply the place of bishops.

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